Books Quotes · Page 640

Read all books in the world, it will not make you wise. Only wise ones are those who know, four letters that…

— Kabir

Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You"

— Eddie Izzard

“We should definitely write a book – The Psychology of Presidents: A guide for dealing with the democratically elected and delusional.”

— Paul Mathews

“She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets.”

— Sinclair Lewis

I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty…

— Mark Kurlansky

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors

— Benjamin Franklin

All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors.

— William Whitworth

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

— Jonathan Weeks

“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of…

— Richard Dawkins

In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the…

— Dana Gioia

“The name fuse followed me from the book to the screenplay, and now I have to live with the name, which I…

— Diablo Cody

The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to…

— Peter Gizzi

The way one perceives a book and a film are totally different. You read a book in the privacy of your room.…

— Milos Forman

“I feel like a little kid in a toy shop. All those books. I've always wanted to be a writer, but before…

— Paula Danziger

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look,…

— Jonathan Swift

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the…

— Raymond Queneau

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

— John Grisham

“Brita said, 'I read at home, I read in hotels, I take a book with me on a twenty-minute trip to the…

— Don DeLillo

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

— Diana Vreeland

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

— Harvey Pekar

The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching…

— Lev Grossman

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

— Sara Sheridan

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

— Harvey Mackay

“You're so completely going to be in Slytherin." "I'm so completely going to be in Ravenclaw, thank you very much. I only…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all…

— James Lee Burke

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

— Hugh Mackay

“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.”

— Robert Burton

“This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,”

— Peter Rollins

There is enough reality in my life, so I try not to read things that have too much stress.

— Rulon Gardner

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

— Michael Holroyd

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like…

— Blake Mycoskie

Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new…

— Kameron Hurley

I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.

— Ophelia Lovibond

Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

— Harrison Ford

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

— Horace Walpole

“Have you never been so heartbreakingly lonely that you felt as though you would go mad?” - Darcia Moon, Gravitation, Book One:…

— N.L. Armitage

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

— Aiden Wilson Tozer